Lishin Elementary Quotes & Sayings

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children. — Silvia Cartwright

I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work. — Jeffrey Donovan

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? — Angelina Grimke

Which word when pronounced right is wrong but if pronounced wrong is right? The word wrong. — Phineas T. Gildersleeve

After my health suffered due to the stress of running my second company, I had to switch careers. But I still didn't want to go back to the corporate world. So I became an academic. — Vivek Wadhwa

We live to long, so long I will, — Jack Kerouac

A view of nature as dense and nonlinear is at the core of our contemporary science. Process and order emerge subtly. — Gregory Benford

Where does the hand become the wrist?
where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
razor's edge
between something and nothing, between
one and the other. — Simon Armitage

For the young the days go fast and the years go slow; for the old the days go slow and the years go fast. — Anna Quindlen

There is no mystery in this association of woods and otherworlds, for as anyone who has walked the woods knows, they are places of correspondence, of call and answer. Visual affinities of color, relief and texture abound. A fallen branch echoes the deltoid form of a streambed into which it has come to rest. Chrome yellow autumn elm leaves find their color rhyme in the eye-ring of the blackbird. Different aspects of the forest link unexpectedly with each other, and so it is that within the stories, different times and worlds can be joined. — Robert Macfarlane

I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because. — Niki Burnham

Thomas Gravesen thinks he's broke his hand, but I told him that you play football with your feet and not your hand. — Gordon Strachan

The future not being born, my friend, we will abstain from baptizing it. — George Meredith